"Marco Leise" <marco.le...@gmx.de> wrote in message news:op.v0f018nh9y6...@dslb-088-070-152-209.pools.arcor-ip.net... > >"By not adopting a technology capable of competing with native apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac, web vendors are preventing important classes of applications such as high-end games and simulations from moving to the open web."
That actually brings up an interestng point I hadn't really thought of before: I've always liked the idea of using native code instead of JS, because it just makes so much more sense on a technical level. But, if something better than JS, like NaCl, is adopted on the web, something that can compete with real apps in efficiency, then that will only further encourage people to hop onto Google's bullshit web-as-an-OS agenda. Even if NaCl is universally adopted and completely eliminates the efficiency issues, the web will still be horrid as a so-called "applicatins platform" for other reasons, like UI (a big one), reliability, centralization, user-ownership, privacy... And those issues aren't realistically fixable within the confines of a web browser. So I think it's best if such a thing as NaCl *doesn't* get adopted, since it would only further encourage the biggest plague of the 21st century.